"Brothers, I have a heart, and I often miss your old subordinates in Tokyo and Yunzhou!"

Zou Run patted Qi Da Niu's shoulder and fully affirmed this simple and brave man.

Then he asked, "Has the cottage changed a lot?" In the past three months, I have been running around, and my uncle has rarely communicated with each other, but I know that the cottage people are thousands at the moment, and they are very prosperous, but I don't know the details, you can talk to me. ”

Qi Daniu was flattered, but after thinking about it, he still sold Guanzi.

He stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and said with a smile: "I won't say it yet, I'll have to see the owner of the village later." ”

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding minions also let out a good-natured laugh, and the atmosphere of the marching team was very warm.

"Okay, you're a big cow, I haven't seen you for three months, you dare to play tricks in front of the owner of this village, and I'll go back to the mountain later, if I don't see anything to surprise me, I have to let my uncle beat you on the board." Zou Run pointed at Qi Daniu with some helplessness and scolded with a smile.

"Hey, hey!" Qi Da Niu smiled slyly, saying that he had no fear, "It is a great joy for the owner of the village to return to the mountain, and the two leaders are too late to reward us happily. ”

Everyone talked about the trouble, the feet did not stop, after half a pillar of incense, Zou Run finally arrived at the checkpoint of Dengyun Village on the mountainside.

What a change!

It turned out that when there were only more than 90 people in Dengyun Village, this mountain checkpoint exhausted the strength of the whole village, and it was just a stone wall more than two meters high. Due to the lack of strength, the workmanship of the wall is extremely rough, and many stones are used directly before they have time to polish, resulting in huge gaps between them, and the most exaggerated places can even be stuffed into a person's fist.

Needless to say, such a walled wall defense capability can only be said to be stronger than nothing.

But now, what is presented in front of Zou Run's eyes is a regular wall of wood and stone structure built against the mountain, more than 20 meters long and three meters high.

The whole wall is made of square bluestone, and many stout giant trees are wedged in the front and back to strengthen the strength, and the gaps between the stones are also smeared with straw and mud and glutinous rice water to make it airtight. There is a pedestrian walkway on the wall, a breastwall more than one meter high, and an arrow tower is erected on each side.

At this time, the lookout in charge of the vigilance on the arrow tower saw Zou Run and his party from a distance, and immediately beat the gong and drum to warn, and the bulky gate was immediately closed, and a team of foot soldiers ran quickly up the wall, holding weapons, and entered the battle state, as if facing a great enemy.

This posture suddenly made Qi Daniu's face darken, and he didn't care that there was the owner of the village standing beside him, and immediately cursed:

"Okay, you Chen Xuan! I sent people up the mountain early to inform the owner of the village to return to the mountain, so that this guy was ready to greet him, but I never thought that this guy not only did not arrange gongs and drums to be happy, but closed the door of the village! The more Qi Daniu spoke, the more angry he became, and finally rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward.

"The owner of the village waits, and watch me go up and scold this guy! Teach him what decency is! ”

"Slow", Zou Run's face was quite displeased, but he still stretched out his hand to stop the irritable Qi Daniu and said:

"Wait, there's someone coming down at the level."

I saw that on the heavily guarded checkpoint, a huge bamboo hanging basket was put down leisurely, the hanging basket slowly fell to the ground, and a young figure crawled out of it awkwardly, and then trotted all the way to Zou Run.

The person who came was Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan, who saw Zou Run himself, didn't say a word, and immediately knelt on the ground.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

When I came up, I kowtowed three times.

"Chen Xuan is late, please punish the owner of the village!" Chen Xuan raised his head and watched the owner of the village who had been separated for several months appear in front of him, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and added in a trembling tone:

"The second master took Yang and Deng down the mountain, and went to discuss major matters with the sister-in-law Gu, the new mother of the little lieutenant Chi Sun, and ordered the second Ruan to guard the island and impose martial law on the cottage before leaving. Chen Xuan accepted this great responsibility, did not dare to be negligent, although there was a Qi Da Niu brother in advance, but Chen Xuan did not see the owner of the village himself did not dare to open the gate of the village, so it was far away. ”

Zou Run helped Chen Xuan up when he heard this, looking at his bloodshot eyes and trembling with excitement, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

"I haven't seen you in March, you have grown so fast, you are worthy of the temporary helm of the cottage, I really didn't see the wrong person at the beginning."

Hearing that the owner of the village did not have half a word of blame, but praised it, Chen Xuan's heart was even more grateful, he hurriedly wiped away his tears with his sleeve, turned his body sideways, and respectfully invited Zou Run to rest in the village.

But Zou Run waved his hand, signaling that it didn't have to be like this.

"Whew...... That's it, since the situation is urgent, I should quickly go down the mountain to find my uncle to discuss important matters, and I can rest assured that the cottage is guarded by you. The companions behind me were all good men who accompanied me all the way from Liangshan, and they were tired and tired after a long journey, and let them rest in the village. ”

After rejecting Chen Xuan's kindness, Zou Run arranged for a few companions to stay and trim, while he himself tightened his cloak again, turned over on his horse again, adjusted a more comfortable sitting position, tightened the reins, and cheered up the big bull and said:

"Do you know how to ride a horse? Order a few capable people and follow me down the mountain! ”

"Huh!" Seeing that the owner of the village personally ordered the general, Qi Daniu excitedly agreed, and whispered a few words beside Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan nodded again and again, and then ran to the checkpoint and commanded loudly.

After a while, with a series of piercing squeaks, the heavy gate opened a gap only one person wide.

Several men riding fast horses whistled out of this narrow gap like the wind, one person and one horse, without stagnation, and the exquisite riding skills can be seen.

Qi Da Niu hurriedly caught up, and after a little conversation, he took an empty horse, turned over and sat down neatly, and then signaled to Zou Run.

Zou Run nodded with satisfaction and made a gesture of his hand.

"Brothers! Go down the mountain with the lord of the village! ”

The wind rises again under the mountain, and the huge horseshoe prints step on the frozen solid ground, bringing up a little residual snow and clods from time to time, splashing on both sides of the official road, attracting pedestrians and merchants on the road to avoid and give way sideways.

Zou Run's entourage was fast, and they formed a straight line on the official road.

If it were an ordinary time, he would naturally not be so flamboyant, but now his mood is like this horse speed, very eager.

Qi Daniu and others, who were squirming and cheering all the way, would not know that under the calm and smiling face of their village owner, their hearts were already surging and surging.

It's urgent!

Zou Run clearly realized that if the current matter of solving treasures and treasures was not handled properly, the peaceful development process of Dengyun Mountain would be interrupted immediately, the established development path would be forced to be rerouted, and the day of meeting with the imperial court was about to come in advance.

But the problem is that the current strength of Dengyun Mountain is too weak to face the powerful military strength of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zou Run's body continued to rise and fall with the galloping horses, and in the interval of this hurry, he tried to re-analyze the information he had mastered, his brain was racing in the cold wind, and he tried his best to think of a way to break the situation.

Confucius Wang Zheng and Mao Taigong are naturally not the masterminds behind the scenes, standing behind them is Wang Shizhong, the governor of Dengzhou, the fundamental purpose of this group of people to send Shuangjie to prison, one is to beat Sun Li to warn all private salt forces to be obedient, and the other is to eat a large amount of low-cost private salt from unknown sources behind Sun Xingu's sister-in-law.

The first one is relatively easy to do, it is nothing more than Sun Li bowing his head, honestly going back to lead the troops, and no longer meddling in the share of private salt.

But the second one involves the salt drying field of Dengyun Mountain, which is the fundamental secret of Dengyun Mountain at present, and it must not be easily exposed.

Thinking about these two items repeatedly, Zou Run vaguely felt a strange taste, and suddenly blessed his soul, he suddenly realized that this was a rare opportunity!

As long as the true output of the salt farm is concealed, a certain share of the private salt production is taken out every month to feed these guys, which can not only rescue the treasure, but also expand the sales of illegal salt, and the crisis actually contains huge development opportunities!

The new discovery made Zou Run excited, and the haze shrouded in his heart suddenly dissipated, he laughed, waved the horsewhip fiercely, and slapped it on the horse's buttocks.

The horses under the seat were in pain, and the speed suddenly went up to a higher level, and Qi Daniu and the others noticed that their own village owner had increased their speed, and they also beat their horses to keep up.

The distant shadow of a city not far away has gradually been revealed, and the destination of Zou Run's trip is ten miles southeast of this city.

Uncle! I'm coming!